Maximilian: Of course,
in order to use Ollama, you need to download
and install it, and you can visit Ollama.com
and then there you'll find a download button.
And as you see it is available for Mac OS,
Linux, and Windows.
And just like LM Studio,
you can use it on all these platforms to run all kinds
of AI models on these platforms,
no matter if you have high-end hardware
or if you are more on the lower-end.
So that's just the same as with LM Studio.
But unlike LM Studio, as you'll see, Ollama does not come
with a graphical user interface, but I'll get back to that.
So let's download Ollama.
Here, I'm on Mac OS, so I will download this version
and once the download finished, you can walk
through the installer,
or on Mac OS, simply drag and drop
the extracted Ollama application file
into your Applications folder.
And then you can just start Ollama.
Now as mentioned, it doesn't come
with any graphical user interface,
so the only indication I got here on Mac OS telling me
that it's running is this indicator here
in my status bar.
On Windows, you should find Ollama in your system tray.
And you can check whether Ollama was installed
or not by opening your terminal,
your command line, on your system,
the one that's built into your system
and then there you should run the Ollama command,
and that's a command that should be available
if Ollama was installed successfully.
If that fails, if that command is not found,
try restarting your terminal or system
and of course, make sure that you did successfully walk
through that Ollama installer
or drag and drop it into the Applications folder on Mac OS
and that you did start Ollama after installing it
and then try again.
Ultimately, you should get some output like this,
which proves that Ollama was installed successfully.
So the next question, of course, is
how we can use Ollama on our system.